East Bay Contracting, Inc.

East Bay Contracting is Miguel Leon. Every one of the five written reviews names him personally, and what they describe is small, hands-on work: a wood fence blown over in a windstorm, a bathroom faucet swap, a day of odd jobs. He works out of 1257 Worcester Rd in Framingham with two employees on the books, and Thumbtack has him at 4.9 across 14 ratings and 17 hires, with Top Pro status in 2020. The fence jobs are where the accounts get specific. A customer writing in April 2020 connected with him on a Tuesday evening about a section of wood fence that had gone over in a wind storm; by Friday morning it was back up and, in their words, looking like new. Another that same month said he asked about every single detail before finishing. A March 2021 customer had a bathroom faucet replaced the next day, earlier than expected. Here is the thing to settle before you call. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 199894, expired on 2 May 2025, and the state registry still lists it as expired. BuildZoom, checking independently in April 2026, found the same, and adds that the status was at one point cancelled. Massachusetts exempts a few narrow specialties from HIC registration, but general contracting and remodeling are not among them — and this is a registration he held and let lapse, not one he never needed. Ask him directly whether it has been renewed. The second thing is age. The written history stops in April 2021. A 2021 reviewer who liked the work still added that they wished he were more available. The Angi page has never collected a review, and its About text is template copy naming a different brand, MLB Contractor, which may be a second name he trades under. For a small handyman job or a fence repair around Framingham, the older accounts are consistent about the same handful of things: shows up when he says, calls when something goes wrong, charges a fair rate. For anything larger, get the registration question answered first and ask for a recent reference — the record you can read is five years old.